This is my first open. In fact I am one of over 100,000 first time open registrants for this year's open. This first experience did not happen through without an obstacle or two.
First the work out itself is going to be difficult because I have still not been able to do back to back double unders. So at least initially in the work out I am doing one double under at a time. By the third round I am getting a pace and that works out better for me.
Second the box that I go to was closed today because of the Phoenix marathon. The street was blocked off in all directions. I parked a street away and walked to the box just to be sure it was closed, although I should have just checked the gym website and would have seen there that it would not be open.
Third, doing the open work out at home with the kids. Kristen was my camera person and there were a couple times I had to be careful how I did a movement to make sure that I did not hit one of my kids. I guess this is what CrossFit means by constantly varied functional movement. :)
Overall I was very happy with my performance just for the fact that I felt by the end of the work out I was getting a good pace with double unders. As I have mentioned in a previous post double unders are one of my new year's resolutions and being able to do 100 of them back to back by December 31st is a high priority. After things slow down a bit with the move I plan to use double unders as my warm up/ skill work movement and get real comfortable with them.
Here is a link to the video of me doing the work out. (http://youtu.be/Q5sCsxOzotI) Look back this next week on friday as I take on 14.2. As always leave a comment/ subscribe and let me know if there is anything you would like me to discuss or if you see a CrossFit work out you would like me to try I am all for that as well.
-Chris Tucker
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